Welcome to Ms. Carolyn Zhang’s Mandarin Class

Middle School The Middle School years work as a bridge when choice is slowly introduced into the system, and students engage in the process of charting their own course.

Destination Help the students bring the learning results they desire.

In A Learning Community--- The way of helping students learning more mandarin

Textbook Chinese Made Easy 4 is the fourth book of the CME series. At the end of the course, the students will be able to use extended language to talk about country, cites, community, family life, holidays as well as traveling.

The teacher provides students with relevant background knowledge. It builds a foundation which will facilitate students to better understand how to learn Mandarin well.

The Steps of Teaching and Learning Preparation (Knowledge Input) Listening Comprehension (Modeling) Retelling (Oral Production---words & phrases) Reading Comprehension (Culture Input) Mixed production (Discussion/Role- playing/Presentation) Written production (Required topics related to the lesson)

Students learn better in an environment where they can use the language in a realistic context. Problem solving and information transferring interactions allow students to use the language purposely. The focus for students is on completing the tasks and language provides the means. Limited language forms are used selectively and repeatedly.

In Our Advance 1 Mandarin Class Skills –Basic --- Vocabulary/Understanding –General--- Grammar/ Reading –Intensive--- Speaking/Writing

Even in the same class, the students levels are a little bit different. 1. Elementary 1. Intermediate 3. Advanced

Elementary  Review the words learned from book 1-3 and master 70% new words in book 4.  Understand and engage in the required communication.  Read and understand a simple paragraph between lines.  Write a paragraph by using learned words and phrases correctly.

Intermediate  Review the words learned from book 1~3 and master 80% new words.  Master the usage of grammar structure, a paragraph of sentences using correct grammar, part of speech and so on.  Read and understand a short article between lines.  Write a paragraph coherently and appropriately by using learned words and phrases.

Advanced  Enlarge the vocabulary and perfect the knowledge of sentence patterns and written skills.  Express themselves appropriately under different circumstances.  Read a complete article and understand the deep meaning and theme.  Write a complete passage using words, grammar structure and sentence patterns learned in the courses clearly.

1. Vocabulary 2. Conversation/Presentation 3. Articles 4. Culture Contents

Vocabulary A vast amount words and phrases are put in their minds in order to strengthen the understanding of languages. Radical can help the students analysis the characters and the meaning, not remember the characters by the single trace.

Conversation All the dialogues are related with our daily life and social focuses. They can incorporate their learning into their daily life directly.

Articles/Books The students will learn one appropriate article in Chinese twice a week. Learning different style of articles by reading can expand their global vision and strength their writing ability. Besides, we encourage the students to finish reading an appropriate book each quarter.

Chinese Culture Chinese Folk Customs Special Topics/ Fables on Ancient Chinese China Idioms such as xiē hòu idioms Chinese Calligraphy Chinese Classical Film

Sub Materials Teaching plan Daily Lesson Update Handouts Websites

Parents Involvement Improve students… 1.Achievement 2.Attitude 3.Homework 4.Grades 5.Aspirations

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